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The software of MapInfo was used to draw the distribution map of the publications.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 780 publications were included for analyses. The most productive year was 2020 with 98 records. China was the most influential country with 494 publications, an H-index of 59, and total citations of 16820. The most prolific institution was Shanghai Jiaotong University in China with 53 publications and 998 citations. <jats:italic>Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research<\/jats:italic> (IF = 4.755, 2021) was the most active journal with 26 articles. The hot keywords were \u201costeonecrosis\u201d, \u201cavascular necrosis\u201d, \u201costeogenic differentiation\u201d, \u201cproliferation\u201d, \u201cPPAR gamma\u201d, \u201capoptosis\u201d, \u201coxidative stress\u201d, \u201cgenetic polymorphism\u201d and \u201cmesenchymal stem cells\u201d. The keywords like \u201cproliferation\u201d, \u201cPPAR gamma\u201d and \u201cgenome-wide\u201d have emerged in recent years.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The number of publications in SONFH has increased significantly in the last three decades. The pathologic mechanism of SONFH gathered most research interests. 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